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The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
In Hong Kong, one picul was defined in Ordinance No. 22 of 1844 as 133 + 1 ⁄ 3 avoirdupois pounds. [5] The modern definition is exactly 60.478982 kilograms. [3] The measure was and remains used on occasion in Taiwan where it is defined as 60 kg. [10] The last, a measure of rice, was 20 picul, or 1,200 kg. [11]
1.0 long cwt (110 lb; 51 kg) short hundredweight: short cwt short cwt 1.0 short cwt (100 lb; 45 kg) long quarter: long qtr long qtr 1.0 long qtr (28 lb; 13 kg) short quarter: short qtr short qtr 1.0 short qtr (25 lb; 11 kg) stone: st st 14 lb used mostly in the British Commonwealth except Canada 1.0 st (14 lb; 6.4 kg) st kg. st kg lb; st lb
The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [2] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton, producing a "short ton" of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a "long ton" of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).
Toggle the table of contents. ... → 72.3 kilograms (159 pounds) {{convert|72.3|kg|lb|abbr=on}} → 72.3 kg (159 lb) Unit code Unit symbol ... pound: st: st: stone ...
7–8 × 10 36 kg The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, associated with the radio source Sagittarius A* (3.7±0.2 × 10 6 M ☉) [164] 8 × 10 36 kg Omega centauri, the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way, containing approximately 10 million stars. 10 37 10 38 10 39 10 40 10 41: 1.98 × 10 41 kg
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If pounds are not specified in input but quarters are, the output value for pounds will be given to the nearest 10 pounds and the metric conversion will be to the nearest 10 kilograms. If neither pounds nor quarters are specified in input, the output value for pounds will be given to the nearest 100 pounds and the metric conversion will be to ...